Quotes About Innovation

Think of an adaptation, any adaptation, and some animal somewhere will have thought of it first.

From the electrical-engineering editor Thomas Commerford Martin came eloquent support: "Mr. Tesla has been held a visionary, deceived by the flash of casual shooting stars; but the growing conviction of his professional brethren is that because he saw farther, he saw first the low lights flickering on tangible new continents of science. . . .

The Italian Futurist artist Giacomo Balla later called his daughters Luce and Elettricità in memory of what he saw at the Paris Exposition. (A third daughter was Elica—Propellor—after the modern machinery he also admired.)

If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.

born in a line of men who used their leisure for thinking, not doing, for spinning brightly coloured dreams that had in them no touch of reality.

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.

If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.

If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls Royce would today cost $100 and get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.

Design is more important than technology in most consumer applications.

There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea.

The gains from technology must be channeled to a broader base of the population than has benefited so far.

There's an old story about the person who wished his computer were as easy to use as his telephone. That wish has come true, since I no longer know how to use my telephone.

Education is the only business still debating the usefulness of technology.

The future of retail is the integration of Internet and digital services with the retail network.

New technology is changing the way we can film. It's enabling us to get fresh new images and tell brand new stories.

Technology is making design more exciting, with color, wallpaper, textures, fabrics that could never have been created without the technology.

While games are fun to play, children should grow up not just being the consumers of technology but also the creators of technology.

Technology fuels economy, unfortunately in today's world it's the fuel that drags economy

[Our lab uses] a desktop inkjet printer, but instead of using ink, we're using cells.

We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future.

Technology's allowing the phone to start to see and understand much like how the human brain does.

By learning to create technology girls learn to speak up...

To me, thought-controlled computing is as simple and powerful as a paintbrush - one more tool to unlock and enliven the hidden worlds within us.

Ten million new millionaires will be created by 2016, and you can become one of them - especiall y if you are in direct selling, technology or home-based business.